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I'm a silhouette, asking every now and then
Is it over yet? Will I ever feel again?
I'm a silhouette, chasing rainbows on my own
But the more I try to move on, the more I feel alone
So I watch the summer stars to lead me home.

It saddens me how the new pope doesn't look like a sith lord to the same extent as the old one.

Ahaha I never looked at it that way before XD

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I'm a silhouette, asking every now and then
Is it over yet? Will I ever feel again?
I'm a silhouette, chasing rainbows on my own
But the more I try to move on, the more I feel alone
So I watch the summer stars to lead me home.

Oh of course the new Pope will be continuing the church orthodoxy. It took the church a thousand years to reach Vatican II and even now there's been a slight reaction to go back to previous traditions. A monolithic organization with a huge history tends to change at a glacial pace.

All of the big SJ manga have their problems but for the most part they are fun. I think a lot of the hate for them is from autists that can't watch anything more than a 12 episode series without getting bored or the 2mature4u folk that only watch edgy seinen (if it had rape and blood it means it's good right?).

Also anything that picks up a vocal fanbase will pick up an equally vocal, if not louder hatebase. Most of those people don't even follow the series so I tend not to listen to them.

I've found that a lot of people don't like various SJ pieces due to filler, being drawn out, weak, generic, or annoying characters, predictability, and length. Those are mostly the reasons I don't do Naruto and Bleach anymore (not One Piece, though; Oda does very well when it comes to developing likable characters and touching stories filled with unpredictability), as well as a few others (of course, not all of them fall prey to this; a lot of them don't).

I'd never dislike something simply because it's long, though I prefer them to be shorter than they usually are. My ideal length for a Shonen is Yu Yu Hakusho length (well, its 24, but I have zero problem watching an anime/reading a manga as good as YYH for as long as it ran), and I really wish Bleach/Naruto/One Piece/others would end- not because they're bad, just because I feel an ending could only benefit them...unless it were rushed.

Naruto and Bleach are both pretty close to ending but I don't see how having One Piece end soon would do it any good. It's pretty clear that Oda knows what he's doing.

Naruto has always had a linear story telling style and we've known from very early on that it will end once Ninja Jesus saves the ninja world from hatred. I guess you just dropped this one due to it being drawn out, fair enough.

Bleach, I never want it to end. It has pretty bad story telling, don't care for a good % of the characters, powering up with a group of wacky dudes every 100 chapters isn't creative but it has the Kubo factor. He is an enigma. I guess I should give credit where credit is due, the latest arc is starting to answer some questions, if it had ended when Aizen was "beaten" I would have been underwhelmed.

As far as 200+ chapter shounen series I like those three a lot more than other titles I've followed anyway. The likes of Fairy Tail and Katekyo Hitman Reborn really are bad.

I dropped Naruto because I didn't like the characters and it was too predictable, not so much because of the length...though I guess that did play a factor. I do like the story, though, but because of the characters, especially Naruto (mainly Naruto).

Bleach...I just lost interest. I don't think it's bad, and I don't even not like it. It's nothing against the show, though.

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